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Quotes Tagged "selling-out"

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
— Dorothy L Sayers The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1
Tags: writing, veracity, values, truth, treason, selling-out, science, scholars, morality, money, lies, integrity, honour, honesty, greed, gain, falsification, artists, academia
Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.
— Todd Garlington
Tags: selling-out, money, idealism, history, happiness, freedom, american-history
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
— Dorothy L. Sayers The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1
Tags: writing, selling-out, self-expression, reviewers, pandering, integrity, honesty, creative-process
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
— Dorothy L. Sayers The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1
Tags: writing, selling-out, self-expression, pandering, on-writing, integrity, honesty, expectations, creative-process
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